Entertaining Children

The next day, many media reported on the CCTV Disaster Relief Gala. A comprehensive and detailed introduction of the initiator of the disaster relief party, the participating star lineup, the content of the party and the achievements achieved. In addition to the very eye-catching donation amount and the interspersed earthquake relief promotional videos that tell very touching rescue stories in the disaster area, there is also a big highlight that surpasses the super luxurious star lineup of the Spring Festival Gala. Many film and television singers who usually play the leading role alone gathered in one program, willingly performing a chorus with everyone.

In this ultra-luxurious star lineup, the most outstanding and impressive one is not a national treasure-level old artist, nor is it a big-name film and television superstar who donated millions of dollars again on the spot, but the only twenty-year-old The young man Xiao Yao. Therefore, in the follow-up media reports, Xiao Yao also became the star who was mentioned the most times by the media in this party. Basically, when all the media reported on the CCTV Disaster Relief Gala, they inevitably mentioned Xiao Yao's deeds in the disaster area introduced by the host at the gala and Xiao Yao's performance at the gala.

There were more than 200 big-name celebrities at the CCTV Disaster Relief Gala. Whether it was fame or status, let alone Xiao Yao, even Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying were inconspicuous among the group. It was an opportunity to perform, and when the media reported afterwards, all the stars who appeared at the party basically focused on Xiao Yao. If you haven't seen the show, many people will find it incredible, but after watching the show, you will feel that it is very logical.

So, Xiao Yao became popular again logically. After the broadcast of the disaster relief gala, various media interviews, TV program interviews, and invitations to various commercial endorsements and performances came again and again. It's not that Xiao Yao has never experienced this kind of battle before, and it's not once or twice that he made such explosive movements. With Xiao Yao's urgency and consistent style, he has no interest in taking advantage of the fire to accept interviews and participate in commercial performances. Xiao Yao basically rejected all those invitations, but not all of them, because one of them The invitation came from a very special unit, which also aroused Xiao Yao's great interest.

"What? Xinhua News Agency invited me to the headquarters of Yanjing for an interview? What are you talking about?" Xiao Yao was extremely surprised when he heard the news from Fang Yiran. The Xinhua News Agency in this world is the same as the previous life. It is China's national news agency, a statutory news regulatory agency, and can be called the mouthpiece of the country. What does such a unit want to talk to this showbiz star?

"Of course I'm talking about your photography work." Fang still smiled, "The photos of the rescue scene you showed at the disaster relief party are no worse than those taken by the on-site photographers sent by Xinhua News Agency to report on the earthquake disaster. Isn't it normal to talk to you?"

"There are two things they want to talk to you this time." Fang Yiran obviously communicated with the other party in advance, and then continued, "The first thing is that Huaxia Photo Agency, a company directly under Xinhua News Agency, wants to include you this time. The photos taken at the earthquake rescue site need your authorization. The second thing is that their photojournalism editorial department wants to hire you as their photojournalist.”

"The first thing is fine,

They just need to use it, and the authorization thing is very simple. "Xiao Yao said, "But the second thing, I am a singer majoring in acting, and they asked me to change careers to become a reporter? How is this possible? "

"It's not impossible." Fang Yiran said, "Aren't you a photojournalist for National Geographic? Why can't you be a reporter? Of course, considering your status, they don't want you to be that kind of establishment." Instead of being a full-time reporter in China, you are hired as a special photographer. They will not arrange specific interview tasks for you, but if you encounter emergencies like this earthquake in the future, and you happen to be present Under certain circumstances, they hope that you can send them first-hand on-site pictures and reports as soon as possible, instead of sending the photos in your hands to foreign media for news reports."

"It turned out that they were stimulated by this matter." Xiao Yao smiled, "If you don't assign me specific tasks, but just let me be a "non-staff personnel", it's not impossible to discuss."

In fact, Xiao Yao's current cooperative relationship with those two foreign media is also the same. They gave Xiao Yao relevant documents to facilitate his actions, but they did not assign him specific work tasks, nor did they pay him a fixed salary. Only when Xiao Yao had good photographic works given to them and adopted by them, They will be paid according to the situation.

Chen Xuan is a photographer, and he has a lot of certificates of photojournalist and contracted photographer. He has no financial worries, and he doesn't care about remuneration. What he cares about is that it can bring him a lot of convenience and at the same time have sufficient freedom without tying himself up. The identities of his photojournalists and contracted photographers are all in this form of cooperation with a high degree of freedom. Although Xiao Yao is not a full-time photographer, his situation is similar to that of Chen Xuan, and he even does not want to be restrained even more than Chen Xuan, so when Chen Xuan helped Xiao Yao obtain those two documents, he also adopted this kind of cooperation method . hollywood star

"But at most I'm a photographer. A special photojournalist for Xinhua News Agency must be a reporter, right? I don't have a press card. Xinhua News Agency is a national unit, not a business magazine like National Geographic. Chen Xuan said He gave me a photojournalist certificate." Xiao Yao continued.

The so-called special correspondents refer to those who do not belong to the editorial department, but are outside the agency or outside the station, and should be asked to complete certain interview tasks for newspapers, news agencies, or radio and television stations. They have no establishment in the news unit, and they do not receive salaries from the news unit. They are personnel from other units invited by the news unit for special news writing tasks such as a certain project, a certain industry, and a certain region. In China, such external special reporters are usually full-time reporters of other news organizations.

"I'm not sure about that." Fang still shrugged, "Maybe they'll let you take a professional qualification certificate first, and then make an exception to issue you a press card. Maybe they didn't hire you as a special photographer, but just I invite you to be a special photographer, the specifics will depend on the results of your interview."

"Okay, let's go talk about it." Xiao Yao nodded enthusiastically.

Xinhua News Agency is the largest news organization in China. Even if it is just a special photographer, it still has a certificate, which will bring great convenience for him to enter certain specific areas. Xiao Yao is naturally very willing. For Xiao Yao, the exam is nothing to worry about, even if it is a journalist qualification certificate, there is no problem at all, but the real reporter certificate needs to work in a regular news unit for more than one year after obtaining the practitioner qualification certificate In the end, the unit I worked for helped him apply. If he could take this opportunity to make an exception and give him a press card, so that he could go to more places in the future, he would have made a lot of money.

Although Xinhua News Agency took a fancy to Xiao Yao because Xiao Yao was a star, but in this kind of matter, both Xiao Yao and Fang Yiran felt that Xiao Yao was not suitable to talk to others as a star. Moreover, this kind of decision-making has always been made by Xiao Yao himself, so after Fang Yiran helped Xiao Yao contact the meeting time, Xiao Yao did not bring Fang Yiran and Pei Minyi, and appeared alone at the agreed time. The headquarters building of Xinhua News Agency.

After registering at the guard and explaining his purpose, a young man soon came out and led Xiao Yao in.

Although Xiao Yao didn't regard himself as a star, the leaders who met Xiao Yao this time were quite high-level. In a reception room, the four leaders who came to interview Xiao Yao were the vice president, deputy editor-in-chief, editor-in-chief of the news photography editorial department of Xinhua News Agency, and the president of the directly subordinate enterprise "Huaxia Photo Agency".

Generally speaking, it is not necessary to hire a special photographer from outside. But Xiao Yao was a good young man who fought bravely against gangsters with knives on the subway back then. He worked with the folk band to promote traditional Chinese folk music culture, and gave away ten songs from the military art troupe for free, including "The Great Wall" and "Descendants of the Dragon". It also greatly promoted the national spiritual inheritance of the country. Although it was not mentioned in the media, his name has already been heard by many senior leaders.

At the CCTV Disaster Relief Gala initiated by several government departments and attended by major leaders, the program group had such boldness to arrange for the host to talk to Xiao Yao, a young rookie in the entertainment circle, when so many veteran artists and big-name stars gathered For such a long live interview, he was given a chance to have a show alone, and he designed the stage performance by himself. In addition to what Xiao Yao did in the disaster area, this aspect is also an aspect considered by the program group.

Now that Xiao Yao is invited to discuss the authorization of photos and special photographers or reporters, it stands to reason that the editor-in-chief of the photojournalism editorial department and the president of "Huaxia Photo Agency" are enough to come forward, but the deputy director and deputy editor-in-chief When the two bosses heard that Xiao Yao had arrived, they also came over curiously to have a look.

The two bosses came to watch, and after shaking hands with Xiao Yao, they sat aside. For related matters, the two bosses of the relevant departments will come to discuss with Xiao Yao in detail.

The first thing to talk about is naturally the collection of photos by the photo agency. This matter is easy to talk about. Although Xiao Yao also does commercial photography projects, his main source of income is not from selling photos. This time the photo agency will collect all the photos he took on the spot in the earthquake-stricken area, which can be regarded as a kind of public welfare photography. And the photo agency only needs the right to use the photos to collect these photos, and does not involve Xiao Yao's authorship and ownership, so Xiao Yao very generously authorized it for free.

The matter of photographic work was quickly discussed, and then it was time to talk about the identity of the photographer and even the photojournalist. Although this matter was proposed by Xinhua News Agency, Xiao Yao was also very interested, but no matter whether it is a special photographer or a special photojournalist, it cannot be settled simply by taking a photo of the head. Seeking immortals with a sword

For a state unit like Xinhua News Agency, even this kind of specially contracted non-staff personnel cannot be settled casually. Even if it is a person registered with the big boss above, the investigation and assessment that should be done still have to be done.

Although there is no such thing as a political review, basic background checks are still required. The three generations of Xiao Yao's grandparents are all stars, his grandfather is an old artist close to the national treasure level, his father is a music king without any bad records, his biological mother is an orphan, his stepmother is a well-known actress, and his stepmother's parents are clean intellectuals. Difficult to check, naturally there is no problem.

In addition to family background, another aspect that needs to be investigated and understood is Xiao Yao's ability. They're not looking for mascots when they're looking for staff photographers and reporters. Although they won't arrange work in detail, they still hope that Xiao Yao can really play a role once something happens.

The photos released at the disaster relief party are undoubtedly of a very high standard, but being able to perform at a high level this time does not mean that they can perform at a high level every time. What they need is a professional photographer who can consistently perform at a high level. Since Xiao Yao broke the news that he began to publish photographic works signed by YS since he was nine years old, the agency also specially collected and evaluated all photographic works signed by YS. From those works, we can basically see the improvement and development of this YS's photography level. Probably since Xiao Yao was in middle school, he can basically reach the level of a professional photographer.

These are all investigations done in the early stage. With the results of these investigations as a basis, the agency will propose the idea of ​​hiring Xiao Yao as a special photographer and it will be approved at the meeting, but to actually make a decision, it still needs some face-to-face contact.

The photo issue is discussed by the president of the photo agency, and the photography issue is naturally discussed by the editor-in-chief of the photojournalism editorial department. The editor-in-chief named Zeng Kexi is also a photojournalist and is very proficient in photography. It is very natural for him to bring the topic to photography when he speaks. Zeng Kexi is a senior photojournalist who once won a photojournalism award and worked as a war correspondent. He prefers photography reports of current events rather than fashion photography. So in the process of chatting, big topics such as the world pattern were unknowingly brought up.

What everyone didn't expect was that Xiao Yao not only talked about photographic equipment and photographic technology with Editor-in-Chief Zeng, he was able to talk with this old man who was over fifty years old, even when talking about the current world situation, he was actually the same. There is something to be said. Especially in the chaotic African region, Xiao Yao knows which countries and regions are relatively safe, which places are more dangerous, which governments are more pro-China, and which governments are not easy to deal with China.

Of course, this is also because the Xinhua News Agency didn't know that Xiao Yao's photography teacher had also been a war reporter. Chen Xuan took Xiao Yao to Africa. Although he did not take Xiao Yao to dangerous war-torn areas unreliably, they all stayed in safer places far away from the war, but he also told Xiao Yao in detail Over there the situation and the various forces. Xiao Yao was also very interested in those places at the time. Although he didn't rush to those places desperately, he still kept paying attention to those places.

After talking like this, the four people present all looked at Xiao Yao, a young man, with admiration. If it wasn't for Xiao Yao's status as a star, and he said that he would not give up his career in the entertainment industry, everyone would have wanted to recruit this young man who had demonstrated his skills in the disaster area into the agency, train him as an official reporter, and send him to Kenya Africa Headquarters.

But even if he cannot be made an official reporter of Xinhua News Agency, there is no obstacle in hiring him as a special photographer.

At this time, Xiao Yao also made a request for a special photographer. There are hard requirements for being a reporter. When Editor-in-Chief Zeng put forward these hard requirements, Xiao Yao immediately said that it would be no problem to take the qualification certificate test, but he really couldn’t meet the requirements for a one-year career. Ask these bigwigs in the news industry Is there any way to accommodate.

At this time, the deputy editor-in-chief of Xinhua News Agency, who seemed to be very interested in being a reporter, came forward to test Xiao Yao on several basic questions about journalism. These questions were not too difficult, and Xiao Yao, who had read a few basic journalism books before coming here, answered them without any burden.

So the deputy editor-in-chief, who was moved by Xiao Yao's performance, made a decision: now, Xinhua News Agency can only give Xiao Yao the status of a special photographer. Xiao Yao obtained the qualification certificate of editor and reporter as soon as possible, and then gave them six news reports within a year that were enough to be published in their newspapers. If it can be completed, then a year later, their Xinhua News Agency will be responsible for helping Xiao Yao apply for a press card and hire him as a special photographer.

Xiao Yao confidently agreed to the conditions put forward by the deputy editor-in-chief.